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Originally Posted by dwig
Any study that attemps to boil down the issue of which is better to a simple answer is flawed to the point of being useless. People's ability to read and their ability to follow audio vary. Personally, I often find audiobooks are often easier to deal with, given a well chosen player, than print or ebooks. I have mild dislexia, which hampers my reading. Resuming my reading after an interruption is often tedious, often hampered by my occasional need to reread phrases. I probably have to read 1200-1500 words total in order to read a 1000 word text.
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For me, everything has a time and a place. I often read books while going to sleep (reading in bed). Sometimes, my eyes are tired (too much monitor work, lots of bright sunlight). An audiobook is very nice then. Just close my eyes and listen to somebody read the story to me (and fall asleep and try to find the place I was still concious the next day
). Or I'm doing some mindless task (like mowing the grass). A nice headset with active noise cancelling on my head, and book volume at max.